Andy Carroll starts for West Ham for the first time since April 4 - away at Sunderland last season - as Slaven Bilic gambles on the fitness of the big striker for the Premier League clash with Huddersfield.

Carroll is one of five changes from last time out - a 3-0 reverse at Newcastle - as Carroll, Jose Fonte, Pedro Obiang and Cheikhou Kouyate and Winston Reid come in to the starting eleven for the first home game of the season.

Declan Rice, Angelo Ogbonna, Mark Noble and Andre Ayew drop to the bench and injured Edimilson Fernandes make way from the team that was well beaten on Tyneside.